Fifa investigates alleged ineligible player used by Ethiopia, Togo, Guinea
Fifa has said it is probing whether or not Ethiopia, Togo and Equatorial Guinea each used an ineligible player in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
Fifa has said it is probing whether or not Ethiopia, Togo and Equatorial Guinea each used an ineligible player in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has slammed CAF and the local organising committee for the state of the pitch at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.
African leaders began talks on insecurity in the Sahel region at the first African Union meeting convened by Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi.
Benin, Togo and Ghana begin a three-day meeting in Cotonou next week to hammer out ways to end a recent upsurge in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
An Angolan court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 24 years in jail for taking part in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Togo's football team.
Opposition legislators boycotted the opening of Togo's parliamentary year to protest the re-election of President Faure Gnassingbe.
Togo has filed a legal complaint against CAF for failing to protect its team from a deadly attack as it travelled to January's Africa Cup of Nations.
Togo plans to fight its suspension from the next two editions of the African Cup of Nations after the team withdrew from January's tournament.
Cabinda's separatists have won new notoriety with their deadly attack on Togo's football team, embarrassing Angola's government, analysts say.
The Hawks of Togo have so far failed to get past the group stage of the African Nations Cup in six appearances, but they could well spring a surprise.
Togolese Prime Minister Komlan Mally has resigned less than a year after taking office.
At least nine people have been killed in torrential floods that have submerged entire villages in Togo.
World Cup giantkillers Togo got a taste of their own medicine on Sunday when crashing out 2-1 to minnows Swaziland in a 2010 World Cup-African Nations Cup qualifier.
Mali and Sevilla forward Frederic Kanoute was named Africa Player of 2007 on Friday, beating Chelsea clubmates Michael Essien and Didier Drogba to become the first European-born player to earn the honour. Nigeria's Cynthia Uwak was chosen as the best women's player ahead of South Africa's Modise Portia.
Togo's euphoria at qualifying for their first World Cup was tempered by a dismal performance at the African Nations Cup which indicates they will struggle in Germany. The Togolese accounted for 2002 World Cup quarterfinalists Senegal in a huge upset but were brought down to earth with a resounding bump after failing to win a point in Egypt.
Togo's Prime Minister, Yawovi Agboyibo, on Tuesday said he had tendered his resignation to President Faure Gnassingbe ahead of the formation of a new, post-elections government. "I was appointed for a specific mission, to conduct the organisation of the parliamentary polls with the Independent National Electoral Commission," he said.
Landmark weekend parliamentary elections in Togo were "free, fair and open", observers from the Economic Community of West African States concluded in a report on Tuesday. "In spite of a few shortfalls, the legislative elections on Sunday were free, fair and open," stated the 15-nation group.
The people of Togo go to the polls on Sunday to choose MPs in elections where all the main political parties are represented, including Gilchrist Olympio's Union of Forces for Change (UFC). After almost two decades of election boycotts, this is the first time that Olympio's UFC is challenging the ruling Rally of Togolese People.
Togo holds parliamentary elections on Sunday that, if free and fair, could convince international donors that the small West African state has fully embraced democratic rule. The European Union, once Togo's biggest donor, froze most aid to the former French colony in 1993.